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Thunia alba 'MC5627' -spontaneous
 
 
 
 
Number: TN9419
Name: Thunia alba 'MC5627' -spontaneous
Type: spontaneous    (What's that?)
Seed Donor: Troy C. Meyers
 
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Comments: Parent plant: One of the offspring from our TN3856 effort of 2004.
 
For additional origin/habitat information supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker, see further below, near the bottom of this page.

Temperatures we attempt to use in the lab & greenhouse:
For Species:   Spring, Summer, Autumn: days average 76°F, nights 62°F; best fit is Cool-Intermediate 75-58°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)
For Species:   Winter: days average 74°F, nights 44°F; best fit is Cool 70-52°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)

About the name...
Etymology of alba   From Latin "albus" white. (Source: Brown 1956)
Etymology of Thunia   Named for the orchid enthusiast Count Thun-Hohenstein in Bohemia in the 19th century. (Source: Mayr & Schmucker 1998)
Pronunciation of alba   AL-ba (Source: Hawkes 1978)
Pronunciation of Thunia   THOO-nee-ah (Source: Hawkes 1978)
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Flask Information
Availability: Seed not viable- failed. We were not able to make any flasks.
You should: Consider placing a "Notify Retries" Request, and if an identical pollination (the same parents) is done again, we'll let you know.
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The origin/habitat information below is supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker

The following information is based on the name of the plant provided by the donor, and assumes that the name is correct. If the plant has been misidentified, then the following information may not be correct.
This text is copyrighted by the Bakers and may not be reproduced without permission.

ORIGIN/HABITAT: Distributed from Nepal, across Sikkim, Bhutan, northeast India, Burma, into China, across much of Thailand, and into Malaya. In Thailand, plants are found mostly in the northwestern mountains and have been reported in many locations at 3300-5900 ft. (1000-1800 m). In China this orchid is known from Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet where it grows in loose, fertile soil beside streams or in forest of broadleaf trees in rocky mountains at 4600-7550 ft. (1400-2300 m).
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